Andrew Stewart: Hypocritical of men to oppose abortion

While I was raised with a Catholic education at Bishop Hendricken High School, I ceased to accept the church's teachings on abortion when it refused to accept my right to gay marriage.

While I was raised with a Catholic education at Bishop Hendricken High School, I ceased to accept the church's teachings on abortion when it refused to accept my right to gay marriage.

Understand that some who have written letters and Commentary pieces in The Journal -- namely James M. Parkin, Barth Bracy, and Don Gormley -- are men, meaning they are unable to get pregnant and procure an abortion. It screams to the absolute heights of hypocrisy when men argue with other men about whether women have their permission to go to a doctor's office, and it also indicates a basic level of bigotry and misogyny that shames me as a Rhode Islander.

If these men were so concerned about preventing abortion, they would adopt children to fill the time they otherwise have to write such asinine letters, and lobby to help gay families adopt more children also. Instead, they try to use the shelter of non-profit organizations and religion to lie about women, their bodies, their sexuality, their humanity, and their value in society.

It is time to end the demonizing of women by gruesome-minded men. They fail to recognize that a great number of Americans do not believe in their notions about a God who feels it necessary to take such a tone of voice.

Andrew StewartProvidence

The writer is a member of Humanists of Rhode Island.

Editor's note: This version of the letter was edited to remove a reference to a relative.